Who were the leading English Reformers that were burned?
II. The question may now arise in our minds, Who were the leading
English Reformers that were burned? What were their names, and
what were the circumstances attending their deaths? These are
questions which may very properly be asked, and questions to which I
proceed at once to give an answer.
In this part of my paper I am very sensible that I shall seem to many
to go over old ground. But I am bold to say that it is ground which
ought often to be gone over. I, for one, want the names of our
martyred Reformers to be "household words" in every
Protestant family throughout the land. I shall, therefore, make no
apology for giving the names of the nine principal English martyrs in
the chronological order of their deaths, and for supplying you with a
few facts about each of them. Never, I believe, since Christ left the
world, did Christian men ever meet a cruel death with such glorious
faith, and hope, and patience, as these Marian martyrs. Never did
dying men leave behind them such a rich store of noble saying, sayings
which deserve to be written in golden letters in our histories, and
handed down to our children's children.
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